Webster - Numbers - 14

14:1  And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

14:2  And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, O that we had died in the land of Egypt! or O that we had died in this wilderness!

14:3  And why hath the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

14:4  And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

14:5  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

14:6  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [who were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

14:7  And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land.

14:8  If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

14:9  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defense has departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

14:10  But all the congregation required to stone them with stones: and the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

14:11  And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?

14:12  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

14:13  And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

14:14  And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day-time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

14:15  Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

14:16  Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

14:17  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

14:18  The LORD [is] long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generation].

14:19  Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt, even until now.

14:20  And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

14:21  But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

14:22  Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

14:23  Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

14:24  But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.

14:25  (Now the Amalekites, and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and pass into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea.

14:26  And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

14:27  How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

14:28  Say to them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

14:29  Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

14:30  Doubtless ye shall not come into the land [concerning] which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

14:31  But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

14:32  But [as for] you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.

14:33  And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.

14:34  After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days (each day for a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

14:35  I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered against me: in this wilderness, they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

14:36  And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing a slander upon the land,

14:37  Even those men that brought the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

14:38  But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [who were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].

14:39  And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

14:40  And they rose early in the morning, and ascended to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [are here], and will go up to the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

14:41  And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

14:42  Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

14:43  For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

14:44  But they presumed to go up to the hill-top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

14:45  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] to Hormah.